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When those who were standing around him saw what was happening, they said, "Lord, should we strike them with our swords?"
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And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
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Jesus said, "Stop! No more of this." Then he touched the servant's ear and healed him.
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Those who came to arrest Jesus were the leading priests, the soldiers who guarded the Temple, and the older Jewish leaders. Jesus said to them, "You came out here with swords and clubs as though I were a criminal.
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I was with you every day in the Temple, and you didn't arrest me there. But this is your time -- the time when darkness rules."
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They arrested Jesus, and led him away, and brought him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed far behind them.
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After the soldiers started a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat together, Peter sat with them.
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A servant girl saw Peter sitting there in the firelight, and looking closely at him, she said, "This man was also with him."
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But Peter said this was not true; he said, "Woman, I don't know him."
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A short time later, another person saw Peter and said, "You are also one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"
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About an hour later, another man insisted, "Certainly this man was with him, because he is from Galilee, too."